Col. Sir John Brown Appointed to New "Terriers" Post London, Oct. 28.
British Army recruiting figures were up again last week. The intake of recruits for the regular army in all districts increased by 288 over the corresponding week of last year, the total being 620, out of which 314 joined the infantry.
Col. Sir John Brown has been appointed Deputy Director-General of the territorial Army at the War Office in accordance with reorganizations foreshadowed by the War Secretary, Mr. Here-Belitha,.a week ago, io provide for the new importance of the Territorial Army in a scheme of national defence. Col. Brown takes local rank of Major-General, the first to be gazetted in the Territorial Army since the war.
In the professional life an architect, he joined the volunteers as private at 21 and during the Great War served in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine, first as an adjutant and afterwards commanding the fourth territorial battalion the Northamptonshire Regiment, He was national chairman of the British Legion for four years—Wireless through Reuter.
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